The commies were ready to take over Central Park. A trove of secret, highly-detailed Soviet maps from the early 1980s shows street level views of New York, Washington, D.C., and other major cities … ...

Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...

Merkel brought a 1980s map of the former Soviet Union and noted the way its borders stretched for hundreds of miles to the west of Russia's current boundary, according to a source who was briefed ...

O ne of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

Map: The fall of the Soviet Union made the world more wooded. ... Western Russia was far less successful in doing so, but even so the impact of logging as seen on satellite images is astonishing.

As we mark 20 years of Vladimir Putin’s rule, Mick O’Hare looks back at the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the forces that underpinned the KGB man’s rise to the top ...

Google Maps Russia: Around 6,000 of the deportees ended up at Nazino Island, an uninhabited swamp ... One of the darkest periods of the Soviet Union's history played out here.

The new map highlights more than 50 examples of so-called constructivist architecture, which thrived in Russia during the 1920s and early 1930s. A short description in English and Russian ...

The fall of the Soviet Union created the largest ever human-made carbon sink – abandoned farmland. In 1991, the USSR formally split into separate republics. The subsequent collapse of industry ...